lungStruck » antique http://lungstruck.com This is interesting to me. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:05:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Popular Science and Industry http://lungstruck.com/2009/06/popular-science-and-industry/ http://lungstruck.com/2009/06/popular-science-and-industry/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:28:59 +0000 Scott. http://lungstruck.com/?p=119 Here’s a couple scans from an antique book I picked up, The Human Interest Library vol. II: Popular Science and Industry. Year on it is 1921.  Printed in Chicago by The Midland Press.

Don’t believe the Earth is round?  See for yourself:

How We Know the Earth is RoundIt takes a long time to travel the solar system via locomotive:

The Infinite Space No Man Can Measure

Here’s a close-up so you see just how long:

Space Trains Close-Up

177 years to the Sun.

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